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Genesis 2:15
• Developing biblical and theological resources that equip the church to nurture
environmental stewardship and caring for creation in all of its parts and as a
whole;
• Educating and advocating for institutional and governmental change;
• Educating and advocating for personal and spiritual transformation that responds
faithfully to the call to care for creation;
• Developing models for ecumenical, interfaith, governmental, and international
cooperation in caring for creation, and nurturing a vision of hope and abundance
rather than scarcity and despair; and
• Working collegially with the churches and members of the Presbytery of Greater
Atlanta to educate, nurture, equip and empower Presbyterians in their individual
and collective caring for creation.
We invite you to join us as we meet at 12:00 noon on the third Monday of each month in
the Presbytery office located at 1024 Ponce de Leon Avenue. Please feel free to call for
further information:
Restoring Creation for Ecology and Justice. In 1990 General Assembly of the PCUSA
approved a comprehensive statement on environmental issues. We have created PDF and
MS-Word doc versions of that statement (minus the appendices), which are available for
download at
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has adopted an excellent 10-page statement
on caring for creation. It is available on the Web or as a Microsoft Word document file.
The ELCA also has an excellent guide for congregational action.
1. Genesis 2:15: And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to
dress it and to keep it.
Let him who possesses a field, so partake of its yearly fruits, that he may not
suffer the ground to be injured by his negligence; but let him endeavor to hand it
down to posterity as he received it, or even better cultivated. Let him so feed on
its fruits that he neither dissipates it by luxury, nor permits to be marred or ruined
by neglect. Moreover, that this economy, and this diligence, with respect to those
good things which God has given us to enjoy, may flourish among us; let every
one regard himself as the steward of God in all things which he possesses. Then
he will neither conduct himself dissolutely, nor corrupt by abuse those things
which God requires to be preserved.
2. Genesis 3:17-18: And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice
of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not
eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy
life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the
field;
It here been falsely maintained by some that the earth is exhausted by the long
succession of time, as if constant bringing forth had wearied it. They think more
correctly who acknowledge that, by the increasing wickedness of men, the
remaining blessing of God is gradually diminished and impaired; and certainly
there is danger, unless the world repent, that a great part of men should shortly
perish through hunger, and other dreadful miseries.
http://webofcreation.org/Worship/index.htm
The Web of Creation website is a diverse collection of resources for liturgy, sermons,
education, greening buildings and grounds.
Norman C. Habel, Seven Songs Of Creation: Liturgies for Celebrating and Healing Earth,
2004, Pilgrim Press. A rich source of liturgy for Earth Sunday and throughout the
liturgical year. Available at Presbytery’s Library.
#134 Creating God, Your Fingers Trace #293 This is My Father's World
#200 To Bless the Earth #297 O Lord of Every Shining Constellation
#201 Praise Is you Right, O God, in Zion #455 All Creatures of Our God and King
#215 Come Sing With Joy to God #458 Earth and All Stars
#220 All People That on Earth Do Dwell #464 Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee
#256 Let the Whole Creation Cry #467 How Great Thou Art
#266 Thank You, God, for Water, Soil, and Air #469 Morning Has Broken
#267 All Things Bright and Beautiful #473 For the Beauty of the Earth
#271 Many and Great, O God are Thy Things #480 Praise Our God Above
#272 God of the Sparrow #494 Out of Deep, Unordered Water
#273 O God the Creator #551 Come, Ye Thankful People, Come
#274 O God of Earth and Space #553 For the Fruit of All Creation
#285 God, You Spin the Whirling Planets #554 Let All Things Now Living
#287 God Folds the Mountains Out of Rock #556 The World Abounds with God;s Free Grace
#290 God Created Heaven and Earth #558 Come, Sing a Song of Harvest
#291 O God of Earth and Altar #560 We Plow the Fields and Scatter
#292 All Beautiful the March of Days
http://www.earthday.net
http://www.earthday.net/resources/2006materials/EarthDay-in-a-Box.pdf
Many resources and activities, including “Religious Earth Day in a Box,” a PDF file with
a diverse set of faith-based materials.